American Football
- All-America Football Conference begins play. Cleveland Browns win the championship by beating New York Yankees 14-9.
- Chicago Bears win the NFL crown by defeating the New York Giants 24-14 in New York.
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, “I want something which I never saw before” and “I wish I was not I.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)